HIUS 221 Liberty University EXAM 1 Midterm 2025

The engine that drives new world discovery is - Correct Ans-misunderstanding vikings came to the new world in - Correct Ans-1,000 BC Leif Ericson - Correct Ans-was the first european to the continent of America (he was a viking) Why was half the world virtually unknown to the other half from AD 1000 to 1492? - Correct Ans-there were millions of people in North America people were already speaking 2,000 languages in the new world before Columbus It was this way for almost 500 years One reason may be... Feudalism- Class oriented society Isolation local perspective The slow move out of isolation involved - Correct Ans-crusades - by the end of the 1400s there is a mad rush to bring goods from the crusades back and it was more cost efficient to travel by sea Age of discovery Prince Henry the Navigator Bartholomew Dias made it a little farther around Africa than Prince Henry Vasco de Gamma made it all the way around Africa Christopher Columbus trying to find a way to the east by going west Discoverer Amerigo Vaspucci - a german map maker finds writings from Vaspucci and labeled his map "Americ's Land" Line of Demarcation - Correct Ans-This was the line drawn by Pope Alexander VI that gave Portugal most of Brazil and Spain the rest of South America- he did this on accident by drawing lines randomly Later revised by the Treaty of Tordesillas John Cabot - Correct Ans-first non-viking european to see and land in north america Balboa - Correct Ans-closes the idea that the new world was the east Magellan - Correct Ans-This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world Cortes - Correct Ans-Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico () Pizarro - Correct Ans-Conquered the Incas and made many of them slaves Columbian Exchange - Correct Ans-all kinds of things get exchanged over time through the whole process creates population shift in the world French and Dutch - Correct Ans-in the 1600s other european nations also started colonies in the new world. new france: in 1608 samuel de champlain started the first french settlement in the new world french did not have as many settlers as the english The Dutch - Correct Ans-a few years after Henry Hudson's voyage, Dutch settlers from the Netherlands came to the new world. their settlement was called New Netherlands and in 1664 it fell to the English and became New York Restoration- common wealth period, no king or queen (charles II becomes new king- monarchy restored) and colonies are restored the english impulse - Correct Ans-the british part of colonial america is 150 years long it stretches from MA-GA Chesapeake and new England were the earliest Hakleuyt's Main Points - Correct Ans-4 key points of Discourse western planting to raid spain sts for markets to Indians tropical products lish sincere religion Roanoke Island - Correct Ans-an early attempt at british colonies that failed Walter Raliegh's first and second attempts (1584 and 1585) Walter Ralieghs third attempt (1587) -Virginia Dare -John White -Croatoan 1588 War of Spanish armata - John White wasn't able to return to new world until 1590 (Lost colony of Roanoke) Jamestown - Correct Ans-First permanent English settlement in North America James I (same James as King James) Joint-Stock Companies- emphasis on individual profit. an investment tool that allows multiple people to invest. Joint Stocks want to settle people in the new world for profit. Settlers find ways to make $ so that Joint Stocks can make a profit. (the Virginia company)